Frank disses .mobi at Domainfest

[Fearless]

Not one house bid for a .mobi at the live auction. Only bids from a hidden online bidder. .mobi sucker supply is dwindling.

[TheLegendaryJP]

I decided to bid online because my cult leader told me to.

[Acro]

Not one house bid for a .mobi at the live auction. Only bids from a hidden online bidder. .mobi sucker supply is dwindling.

Any updates on iPhones.mobi traffic?

[iDName]

Meanwhile, in the real world, Frank is just another domainer!

Frank Schilling came into the domain industry about 5 years ago, correct?

So he never saw the opportunity to buy .com domains within the first years of release?

How many .com domains does Frank own now? 250,000? Why is he going to 'big up' .mobi when he is a .commie???

What does Frank know about the birth of the Internet? Was he one of the innovators of .com's early success?

How many years 'after' the birth of .com did he see the potential to take advantage of it's traffic?

What does Frank know about .mobi?

Does he have a crystal ball for the future of the mobile web?

Does he know what companies, who built their real world presence without a .com on the end, are going to do when advertising their mobile websites (if they choose to do so)?

How many of Frank's 250,000 domains are mobile compliant on every single mobile device out there?

Is it even healthy to own so many of the world's domains names?

Is he really setting an example for us all to follow?

What plans does he have for all those 250,000 domain names most being .com? Super domain parking pages? Sites to target the millions of mobile web users out there?

[Acro]

Is it even healthy to own so many of the world's domains names?

Is it healthy in the 21st century to preserve and protect an antiquated establishment such as monarchy?

Frank is an entrepreneur. He's not the only voice but he's definitely a compass, indicating the industry's direction.

Frank makes a lot of money by being a .commie (haven't heard that since the Commodore 64 days, when ZX Spectrum users were set against the evil machine) and I think that's good enough to answer the rest of your questions.

[iDName]

Frank is an entrepreneur. He's not the only voice but he's definitely a compass, indicating the industry's direction.

Frank makes a lot of money by being a .commie (haven't heard that since the Commodore 64 days, when ZX Spectrum users were set against the evil machine) and I think that's good enough to answer the rest of your questions.

End of the day, no it's not a good enough answer to all my other questions.

The Internet is NOT just about MONEY for God's sake!

Open your mind.

He saw the opportunity to make shed loads of money from an already established .com!!! Big deal!

[Acro]

What exactly do you wish I'd open my mind to? I am here, on DNForum, to make money.

It's irrelevant whether the Internet is a tool to communicate or to make money, or to argue in 200 different languages.

The domain market has been following the trends Frank utilizes to make the most out of it. I don't want to twist a working paradigm. Re-inventing the wheel is something that eventually costs time and money.

[iDName]

The fact that you think because Frank makes a lot of money being a .commie answers all of my other questions.

[Acro]

Commie stands for communist, a derogatory term (even to the real communist ideology followers).

And yet, you use the same term to describe a successful individual who employs a definite non-communist, capitalist technique in order to succeed.

So you think the Internet is a free-for-all? Because that'd be the real commie approach

[iDName]

LOL, I honestly didn't even know what a commie was!

[whitebark]

Not one house bid for a .mobi at the live auction. Only bids from a hidden online bidder. .mobi sucker supply is dwindling.

don't be so sure about that.
mymobile.mobi sold for $15500US

The usual pump and dump crew are still hard at work. But seeing those really in the know are avoiding it more and more speaks volumes. But I'm sure the usual suspects will now post a long string of the same companies who are using mobi...

[Devil Dog]

I honestly didn't even know what a commie was!

Pretty sad if true.

[iDName]

Pretty sad if true.

[Vision]

Not one house bid for a .mobi at the live auction. Only bids from a hidden online bidder. .mobi sucker supply is dwindling.

Greg, recent history has proven Frank's ignorance with respect to .mobi

It is understandable Frank, and other mobiphobics are threatened by .mobi.

Fear & ignorance induce vitriol & dissing.

I enjoy watching the mobiphobes foam at the mouth and attack .mobi like immature kids -- the attacks are a very good sign for dotMobi investors.

Here is an analogy, lets say you are at a fine restaurant sitting with a Pamela Anderson look-a-like and your wife or girlfriend walks in and sees you flirting with the Pamela clone...what happens? Anger, dissing & attacks ensue by aforementioned girlfriend or wife

OK. Now lets say your wife or girlfriend catches you flirting with a Rosie
O'Donnell look-a-like....what happens? Satisfaction. Your wife or girlfriend is happy as a child on Christmas morning.

Similar in politics...

Obama becomes a superstar and the Clintons feel threatened.

In turn, the Clintons express anger, by attacking, dissing and throwing mud at Barack while they let John Edwards be because they don't see Edwards as a threat.

On the Republican side, Mitt leads and now everyone else on the GOP side feels threatened so they diss him and throw everything, but the kitchen sink at him.

In the domain industry...all these self-appointed philosopher kings "diss dotMobi" because of an increasing threat due to the "sex appeal" and success of the .mobi extension

Do you see this same MobiHate Club diss .eu or .tv or .info...No, No, No.

Why? Because these "plain janes" are not a threat

I realize the "so-called experts," often get things wrong.

Experts who said dotMobi had zero chance. And after a rocky college career, 6th round pick Tom Brady inevitably no future NFL career. The 1980 Miracle On Ice. All the experts who said to buy homes in 2006 and tech stocks in 2000.

It seems silly now. It was taken as gospel then.

So lesson to all now.

Be very careful when the "conventional wisdom" say something is inevitable, like the death of dotMobi. It rarely is.

And as they say, history is defined not by things we expected, but by things we did not.

We know that. But we forget that.

Like the boxer playing it safe because he's ahead on all the judges' scorecards going into the final round, then ends up getting knocked out in the final round. Like IBM dismissing Microsoft in the 1970s. And Microsoft dismissing Google in the 1990s.

Until they don't. And the game plays on. Only this time without them, the dotMobi naysayers, playing in it.

Stay tuned...

But I'm sure the usual suspects will now post a long string of the same companies who are using mobi...

WhiteBark, your wish is my command....

Banking
BofA.mobi (Bank of America)
Deutsche-Bank.mobi
Wachovia.mobi
Barclays.mobi
Fidelity.mobi

Insurance
Ing.mobi
StateFarm.mobi
AXA.mobi

Hotels
Marriott.mobi
DoubleTree.mobi
Hilton.mobi


Car Manufacturers
Ferrari.mobi
BMW.mobi
Rolls-Royce.mobi
FordCA.mobi (Ford Canada)
JaguarXF.mobi

Transportation
Amtrak.mobi
AAA.mobi (American Automobile Association)

Sports
ESPN.mobi
NBA.mobi
WNBA.mobi
UFC.mobi

Magazines
Time.mobi (Time Magazine)
BusinessWeek.mobi
CNNMoney.mobi

Alcohol
Smirnoff.mobi

Entertainment:
Fox.mobi
USANetwork.mobi
TBS.mobi
HSM2.mobi (Disney's Highschool Musical)

Internet
MSN.mobi
GoDaddy.mobi / TDNAM.mobi
Netsol.mobi (Network Solutions)

Technology
Cisco.mobi

News
FoxNews.mobi
ABCNews.mobi
AlJazeera.mobi

Newspapers
TheSun.mobi

Guides
Zagat.mobi

Mobile Operators
T-Mobile.mobi
Three.mobi
Vodafone.mobi
TIM.mobi
Orange.mobi
ChinaMobile.mobi

Mobile Manufacturers
Nokia.mobi
SonyEricsson.mobi

Telecommunications
Ericsson.mobi
3Skype.mobi

Weather
Weather.mobi (The Weather Channel)

Cities, States & Countries
Helsinki.mobi
InformNY.mobi (New York State Department of Transportation)

Airlines
Iberia.mobi
SAS.mobi

Clothing
Polo.mobi
BenettonPress.mobi (United Colors of Benetton)

Airports
Schiphol.mobi (Amsterdam)

NGO's
WWF.mobi (World Wildlife Fund)

Nokia has launched and is marketing 6 dotMobi sites:

1.) Nokia.mobi
2.) forumnokia.mobi/
3.) mosh.nokia.mobi/
4.) NokiaforBusiness.mobi
5.) s60.mobi
6.) Medeo.mobi

[TheLegendaryJP]

no one thought rocky stood a chance against the russian either.

[Fearless]

Vision I got tired of reading your post after 2 sentences. Can you tell me why there were only 2 online bidders for one "premium" .mobi and only one of those 2 bidders that bid on any of the other "premium" .mobis? And how did .mobi bidders crash the sedo auction servers just a few weeks ago? Something is not adding up here.

[TheLegendaryJP]

Vision I got tired of reading your post after 2 sentences. Can you tell my why there were only 2 online bidders for one "premium" .mobi and only one of those 2 bidders that bid on any of the other "premium" .mobis? And how did .mobi bidders crash the sedo auction servers just a few weeks ago? Something is not adding up here.

Dont you have to carry that conspiracy over to an infamous .mobi sale that " kick started " it all ?

Or do you think the .mobi startups recruit different people all the time ?

[Acro]

And how did .mobi bidders crash the sedo auction servers just a few weeks ago? Something is not adding up here.

The menace of our information society is that there is too much information and it's retained for too little.

Indeed, anyone complains about the sedo server crash / .mobi auction fiasco anymore? How about the recent NetSol front-running scandal? Any more outrage?

[Vision]

Vision I got tired of reading your post after 2 sentences. Can you tell my why there were only 2 online bidders for one "premium" .mobi and only one of those 2 bidders that bid on any of the other "premium" .mobis? And how did .mobi bidders crash the sedo auction servers just a few weeks ago? Something is not adding up here.

-High reserves
-"Generally" underwhelming .mobi names at DomainFest
-The financial markets had an intraday range of 700 points during DomainFest --- anxiety impacted the entire auction

....not to worry Greg TRAFFIC and sedo Auctions will be upcoming, you can continue your behind the scenes anonymous .mobi bidding.

Here are the results of DomainFest...
own.mobi - SOLD US$ 22,500
trivia.mobi - SOLD US$ 8,000
trading.mobi - SOLD US$ 5,000
checking.mobi - didn't meet reserve
newsstand.mobi - didn't meet reserve
tasty.mobi - didn't meet reserve
guru.mobi - didn't meet reserve
results.mobi - SOLD US$ 5,000
bloopers.mobi - didn't meet reserve
casinobet.mobi - didn't meet reserve
tickethub.mobi - didn't meet reserve
wordoftheday.mobi - didn't meet reserve
activate.mobi - didn't meet reserve
tube.mobi didn't meet reserve
upload.mobi didn't meet reserve

Here are some results of the SEDO & TRAFFIC Auctions last year....
2007 music.mobi $616,000
2007 games.mobi 401,500
2007 poker.mobi 150,000
2007 ringtones.mobi 145,000
2007 sportsbook.mobi 129,800
2007 news.mobi 110,000
2007 Hosting.mobi 101,000
2007 sports.mobi 101,000
2007 realestate.mobi 85,000
2007 movies.mobi 82,000
2007 stocks.mobi 70,000
2007 juegos.mobi 61,000
2007 game.mobi 61,000
2007 casinos.mobi 52,000
2007 bank.mobi 51,501
2007 download.mobi 51,500
2007 videos.mobi 51,000
2007 photos.mobi 51,000
2007 email.mobi 50,000
2007 girls.mobi 49,000
2007 currency.mobi 47,000
2007 insurance.mobi 42,005
2007 chat.mobi 42,000
2007 singles.mobi 41,000
2007 sportsbetting.mobi 41,000
2007 traffic.mobi 36,008
2007 books.mobi 33,510
2007 scores.mobi 33,000
2007 gamble.mobi 33,000
2007 buy.mobi 32,500
2007 fashion.mobi 32,000
2007 free.mobi 31,500
2007 wine.mobi 30,000
2007 horoscope.mobi 30,000
2007 play.mobi 28,150
2007 phonenumbers.mobi 28,000
2007 video.mobi 25,555
2007 podcast.mobi 25,000
2007 mortgages.mobi 25,000
2007 pussy.mobi 23,098
2007 pics.mobi $ 23,000
2007 invest.mobi 22,500
2007 jokes.mobi 24,100
2007 dictionary.mobi 21,500
2007 flower.mobi 21,500
2007 pizza.mobi 21,000
2007 musica.mobi 20,600
2007 movie.mobi 20,500
2007 photo.mobi 19,500
2007 directions.mobi 19,000
2007 horoscopes.mobi 18,000
2007 celebrity.mobi 17,500
2007 cab.mobi 17,500
2007 musicvideos.mobi 16,500
2007 art.mobi 16,500
2007 entertainment.mobi 16,500
2007 vodka.mobi 16,500
2007 soccer.mobi 15,000
2007 classifieds.mobi 14,500
2007 deportes 14,500
2007 film.mobi 11,611
2007 b2b.mobi 13,829
2007 betonline.mobi 13,500
2007 cash.mobi 12,500

[Fearless]

Any updates on iPhones.mobi traffic?

Grand total revenue of $0.00 this month.